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of resources, with due regard for value received. Education is no exception. This study focus on the presentation and … evaluation of public organizations (public grammar schools in our case) in education on the basis of their economy, efficiency … study can provide useful information about the situation of education for public forces and for public grammar schools …
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We investigate the relationship between inequality and political support for public education funding in a model of … endogenous fertility and school choice. Household income heterogeneity is consistent with the skewness of empirical income … distributions. Inequality can drive education spending in opposite directions in poor and rich economies. A mean preserving spread …
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The U.S. economy continues to be characterized by a persistently-high rate of unemployment, with at least another three years before attainment of the pre-recession unemployment rate.Six significant structural trends are identified and their impacts discerned. The pernicious impact of...
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This paper poses the following question in the context of civil rights in education — is proportionality synonymous … areas of education. In some areas, male interests are stronger than female interests, and in other areas the reverse is true … rights for both men and women in education, a reality that, I argue, civil rights theoreticians and advocates don't want to …
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Over the past fifty years, elected officials in the name of education reform have promulgated countless policies. Yet … kids. These statistics are harshest for low income and ethnic minority kids. This paper contends that the absence of proper … meet none of these conditions. The correlation between educational outcomes and income is indisputable. However, none of …
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these measures within a local education market over a prolonged period of time and sort out the areas that are most affected …
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We introduce the concept of financial competence, a measure of the extent to which individuals' financial choices align with those they would make if they properly understood their opportunity sets. Unlike existing measures of the quality of financial decision making, the concept is firmly...
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One of the main goals of grants is to reduce dropout rates. In this paper, we assess how different assignment rules target different students and how they affect dropout rates in the first year of enrollment. The analysis uses administrative data from all Italian universities for the period...
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The education and application of skills in it is an essential prerequisite for the growth and development of each … national economy in the future. Investing in education and skills development are essential incentive for raising the growth …. Th e main task of this paper is to answer the question whether with the current method of education we can be a country …
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This paper attempts to assess outcomes of school system decentralization in Poland. National examination results are analyzed using the value-added model of teaching quality. Variation in decentralized spending is related to estimates of achievement growth. Exploring exam results for three...
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